Altenay Golmohammadi

Travel and Tourism - Elementary level

Travel and Tourism Elementary level

Description

In this lesson students will learn how to complain about a package holiday through listening activities. They will share their own problems they have had on their holidays. Some words will be checked and they will have a role play activity to practice the target language.

Materials

Role play

Role play

Listening activity2b

Listening activity2b

Listening activity2a

Listening activity2a

Listening activity1

Listening activity1

dictation

dictation

lead in

lead in

Role play

Role play

Listening activity2b

Listening activity2b

Listening activity2a

Listening activity2a

Listening activity1

Listening activity1

dictation

dictation

lead in

lead in

Main Aims

To provide gist, detailed and deduction listening practice using a text about Travel and Tourism in the context of Complaining about a package holiday

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a role play in the context of Complaining about a package holiday

To provide review and practice of complaining in the context of a holiday package

Procedure (40-50 minutes)

Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

- Reflect the pictures on the board
- Tell them what are they
- Ask about their plans for this summer
- Tell them to share their previous experiences on vacations
- Tell them about my own problems e.g The salt and spices used in my baby's food, the extra money we needed to pay for each cup of tea, a heavy smoker in the next door room, there wasn't any lifeguard in the boat tour and I was about to sink,...
- Tell them to share their own problems

Pre-Listening (8-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

- Tell them to take out a piece of paper and take a pen/cil
- Tell them that they will write the words i say
- Ask them to check their peer's dictation and then check in groups
- Reflect the correct spellings on the board
- Check if they know the meaning of the words

- Tell them that they are going to listen to a conversation between three people about a holiday package
- Reflect the questions on the board
- Tell them to read them first,
- Play the audio track
- Replay if needed
- Tell them to decide on the answers in groups
- Check the answers

- Hand out each student a copy of the complaint form
- Tell them to take a look at the form
-Tell them that they are going to listen to the same conversation again, they need to fill in the gaps as if they are the travel agent
- Ask them if they know any of the wanted information, talk in groups
- Play the recording
- Replay if necessary
- Tell them to compare their answers in pairs
- Give feedback

Post-Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

- Put them in groups of three, two men and a woman if possible
- Give them a copy of the recording script
- Play the recording as they are listening to the pronunciation and so,
- Tell them to practice the conversation together
- When they finish tell them to swap roles
IF THERE IS TIME
- Tell them to change the information with their own ideas
- Give them time to practice and prepare to have the role play in front of the class
- Ask a group to come and have their role play in front of the class